Plaintiff
seeks leave to proceed in forma pauperis in this civil action
under 28 U.S.C. § 1915. The motion will be granted.
Further, after a careful review of plaintiff s complaint,
this action will be dismissed as legally frivolous.

Standard
of Review

Under
28 U.S.C. § 1915(e), the Court is required to dismiss a
complaint filed in forma pauperis if it is frivolous,
malicious, or fails to state a claim upon which relief can be
granted. To state a claim for relief, a complaint must plead
more than "legal conclusions" and
"[t]hreadbare recitals of the elements of a cause of
action [that are] supported by mere conclusory
statements." Ashcroft v. Iqbal,556 U.S. 662,
678 (2009). A plaintiff must demonstrate a plausible claim
for relief, which is more than a "mere possibility of
misconduct." Id. at 679. "A claim has
facial plausibility when the plaintiff pleads factual content
that allows the court to draw the reasonable inference that
the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged."
Id. at 678. Determining whether a complaint states a
plausible claim for relief is a context-specific task that
requires the reviewing court to draw on its judicial
experience and common sense. Id. at 679.

A
complaint may be dismissed as frivolous if it is premised on
a nonexistent legal interest or delusional factual scenario.
Neitzke v. Williams,490 U.S. 319, 327-28 (1989).
Moreover, "a finding of factual frivolousness is
appropriate when the facts alleged rise to the level of the
irrational or the wholly incredible, whether or not there are
judicially noticeable facts available to contradict
them." Denton v. Hernandez,504 U.S. 25, 33
(1992).[1]

The
Complaint

Plaintiffs
complaint alleges that defendants stole money, property, and
personal belongings from him through an internet-based Ponzi
scheme. Plaintiff has asserted similar claims against other
defendants in several district courts throughout the nation
based on the same underlying facts, all of which have been
dismissed. See Rossman v. Moraco,
2:15-cv-02392-RCJ-CWH (D. Nev. June 29, 2016) (dismissing
plaintiffs complaint for "failure to properly plead
subject matter jurisdiction and venue or to state a
claim"); Rossman v. Scaramucci, 2015 WL
8482760, at *2 (S.D. Cal. Dec. 8, 2015) (same); Rossman
v. Leader, 2013 WL 6327823 (D.D.C., Dec. 2, 2013)
(dismissing complaint and noting that venue appeared to be
improper); Rossman v. Chase Home Finance, 2012 WL
2580584 (D.D.C., June 29, 2012) (dismissing complaint
relating to allegedly unlawful foreclosure and bank's
operation of Ponzi scheme, and noting that venue appeared to
be improper); Rossman v. Stelzel, 2011 WL 4916898
(E.D.N.Y., Oct. 13, 2011) (dismissing as frivolous
Rossman's complaint seeking to stay state court eviction
proceedings).

Plaintiffs
complaint contains claims that are fantastical, irrational
and wholly incredible. Such claims are subject to dismissal
as legally frivolous. See Neitzke v. Williams, 490
U.S. 319, 328 (1989) (a claim is factually frivolous if it
depicts "fantastic or delusional scenarios");
Denton v. Hernandez,504 U.S. 25, 33 (1992) (accord;
describing a frivolous claim as one where "the facts
alleged rise to the level of the irrational or the wholly
incredible").

For
example, plaintiff alleges that he was a former decorated
trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice who
is a friend of Anthony Scaramucci and a social acquaintance
of Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General of the United
States. Plaintiff further claims, in extremely derogatory and
racist language, that persons acted against him when AOL
bought Time Warner in March of 2001:

numerical representations of Brud Rossman ranged across
supercomputing regimes of the CIA, NSA, FBI, other portions
of DOD and the civilian government, from 665 to 656 to
'-6' to to '-5' to other variants of the
'666' sign of the Beast found in the Book of
Revelations, the New Testament, and across literally the
100s, if not the 1000s such variants from 1964 to date.

Plaintiff
also asserts that "these computing system
definitions...were then intersected with financial
systems...losses are estimated at mind-boggling levels, and
as indexed to [plaintiffs] IQ score...." He then refers
to himself as the "anti-Christ, " and he claims
that he has been falsely arrested and imprisoned, subjected
to attempted murder, torture, robbery, and "theft of
property" by defendants.

Plaintiffs
assertions are simply nonsensical and delusional and wholly
based in fantasy. As such, the Court will dismiss this action
based on Denton as legally frivolous.

Accordingly,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiffs motion
to proceed in forma pauperis [ECF No. 2] is
GRANTED.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;IT
IS FURTHER ORDERED that plaintiffs action is
DISMISSED as legally frivolous. See
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